SmartDraw vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

As of February 2019, SmartDraw is ranked 16th in Architecture Management vs Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect which is ranked 1st in Architecture Management with 16 reviews. The top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "It allowed teams and team members all over the world to collaborate and sync up on specific detailed parts of the solution or model easily with a minimum fuss". SmartDraw is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and SAP PowerDesigner. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, No Magic MagicDraw and Visio.

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Pricing and licensing are suitable even for small companies.Pricing and licensing is very attractive, simple, and straightforward.It’s the best deal in town, by far.Licenses are pretty low cost compared to, for example, ARIS.The pricing for ultimate version is steeply high.Use floating licenses strategically.The Corporate Edition, or one of the bundles, is the way to go.

Create presentation-quality business graphics with SmartDraw. SmartDraw makes fast results possible by taking a fundamentally different approach to drawing software. SmartDraw focuses on the end result (your illustration) not the drawing process. Instead of staring at a blank screen, with SmartDraw you start by selecting the exact template you need from over a hundred different types. Then use simple commands to add your information and SmartDraw does the rest.

Sparx Enterprise Architect is a platform that accelerates and integrates software, business and systems development. Twice winner of Jolt and multiple SD Times Awards with an installed base of 580,000 + licenses, supported by 230 partners in 160 countries. From requirements to implementation and beyond, Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect is a fully featured tool suite that lets you model, design, simulate, prototype, build, test, manage and trace from vision to solution.

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